A man arrested outside a school while he was collecting his daughter has been fined for driving with no insurance.

Jamshaid Ishaque pleaded guilty at Bath Magistrates Court on Friday, August 18, to driving with no insurance when his car was found to be blocking the staff entrance to May Park primary school.

The incident, which happened back in January, created controversy on social media after a video filmed on a mobile phone by a passer-by was shared widely on social media.

In the video, Ishaque was seen in handcuffs and was led away to a police car.

He was later de-arrested at the scene, although his car was impounded that day for not being insured.

Magistrates heard Ishaque plead guilty, but asked for special reasons to be taken into account. The 40-year-old claimed he had only driven the car a few yards to move it from the front of the gates under the specific instruction of a police officer.

An image from the video of the arrest of Jamshaid Ishaque

Under oath, Ishaque told the court his uncle had driven the car and left it in that spot, and he had arrived at the scene with his daughter, who he had just picked up from school.

Defending, Jennifer Stetson told magistrates Ishaque was claiming a special reasons argument as attenuating circumstances. “The first reason is the shortness of the distance travelled,” she said.

“It was a couple of car-lengths away. It is the circumstances – it was the police officer who told him to, and said she would arrest him if he didn’t move the car. That is the reason why Mr Ishaque drove, because a police officer told him to,” she added.

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The court watched the body-worn camera footage from the police officer, PC Claire Boddie, involved. It showed her trying to sort out the traffic chaos in the roads around the school caused, in part, by Ishaque’s car blocking the staff entrance to the school.

The bodycam video showed Ishaque walking up to the car, and PC Boddie directing him to move, telling him his car was going to be ticketed for obstruction, and asking for his details.

Ishaque, from Stapleton Road in Easton, told PC Boddie he had to go and pick his son up from school in Knowle.

In court, he told magistrates the car had no insurance, and that he wasn’t driving it that day. “I had insurance three months before that. That car was gifted to me by my father, but insurance was expensive so I couldn’t afford the insurance,” he told magistrates.

“It was my uncle who drove it, they got trade insurance from their business about 100 yards from the school. My uncle drove to the school, my intention was just to pick up my daughter.

“I had to go and pick up my son too, it was walking distance away,” he added.

When Jane Cooper, prosecuting, reminded Ishaque that he had told PC Boddie on the bodycam footage that he was then going to pick up his son from school in Knowle, he said: “Did I? I don’t remember saying Knowle.”

Ishaque told the court he got insurance later that day before he was able to get his car from the pound.

The incident outside May Park primary school happened just a couple of days after PC Boddie Tasered race-relations officer Judah Adunbi in the face in a separate incident in Easton – an incident for which she is now facing a charge of common assault.

The video of the incident involving Ishaque began after he had been arrested, and was in handcuffs.

Only part of the 20-minute police bodycam video was shown to magistrates court - the first five minutes or so of the incident, to show magistrates the circumstances surrounding Ishaque being asked to move the car. The section shown to the court ended before Ishaque was arrested and the video filmed by a passer-by began.

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Magistrates did not believe Ishaque’s plea of special circumstances, and his story that his uncle had driven the car there, and all he had done that day was drive the few yards as instructed by PC Boddie.

“We do not find special reasons,” said the chair of the bench Angela Graham-Leigh. “The bodycam footage is conclusive. We believe you drove the car to the school and had the intention of driving it afterwards.”

Ishaque was fined £300, with a £30 victim surcharge. He was also given six points on his licence, and was ordered to pay £85 costs, a total to pay of £415.

Ishaque’s defence solicitor said her client was in receipt of ESA and asked if he could pay £10 a fortnight.